Brian Pedone

Brian Pedone began boxing at the age of 13 and by the time he attended college had opened his own boxing gym. By 19 he had begun his career as head trainer and owner of Pedone’s Heavy Hitters Boxing Gym in the Poconos, PA. While training young boxers he continued his pursuit of a B.S. in Computer Science and by the time of graduation was running a full-time boxing gym and his first computer software company, Grad Techs. In 2006 he won $20,000 in startup capital by winning a local business plan competition. By 2007 he began his second company, ABP Software, and created NeedMyPassword.com, a secure online storage for passwords. He was able to sell a 7,000 license contract to a university and then would later sell NeedMyPassword.com which at the time had 3,500 users and was storing over 7,500 passwords.

In 2008, Brian was named by Business Week as one of the Top 25 Entrepreneurs 25 Years and Under. The recognition highlighted his boxing gym, which was in excess of 300 members, and NeedMyPassword.com. Brian is currently in the works of promoting AreYouCatholic.com which is a site focused on good deeds and currently has over 115 Catholic Churches across the world. He is also turning Pedone’s Heavy Hitters into a franchise, training a professional MMA heavyweight prospect, part-time consultant for a his alma mater assisting students in business plan writing, and working on his latest venture FullHelping.com which is slated for release in early 2012.